Remote Senior Technical Animator Job in Los Angeles, CA SophiaVerse

Who you are

• Expert in Unity animation
• Sufficient Animator component and C# and/or Rust skills to implement clean animtech code
• Animation experience, both character and environmental, in Unity or Unity+Blender
• Keen analytical mind
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience developing and shipping AA or AAA games as a technical animator
• Self-motivated
• Strong work ethic
• Able to work independently
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)

What the job involves

• Take ownership of the animation and animtech-integration tasks needed to implement an interactable 3D environment featuring AI and player characters.
• Systematize the animation process into a library-driven, high-reuse, efficient pipeline.
• Solve animtech challenges involved in creating a persistent multiuser game environment featuring interactable environments with AI and player character actors.
• Ensure the animation library and animtech script library are robust, efficient, and scalable.
• Create character and environmental animations and integrate them into the environments/levels.
• Prototype, refine, and deploy solutions to all our animtech problems in creating a persistent, stateful, interactive, multiuser experience.
• Work with gameplay programmers to ensure animtech solutions perform as needed to implement interactions between characters, characters-environmental interactions, and environment-to-environment interactions.
• Participate in gameplay and animtech code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring that all systems are implementing the necessary hooks and procedures for animtech integration.
• Write efficient, high-quality, scalable, testable animtech scripts.
• Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to animtech systems.